Word: aretha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your attempted analysis of "soul," as expressed by the beautiful and sensitive Aretha Franklin, does little more than perpetuate America's racist dogma that anything indigenous to blacks must be imbued with bestial sexuality, an oblique relationship with God and/or family or, at best, quaint abnormalities of conduct. Your perception of soul is as your perception of those who live it. You see plainly the origins, but not feeling its message, you subject it to comical distortions or paternal niceties. As is evident in many crumbling households, the would-be Great White Father is well advised to "just...
...those Negroes who would leave it to us whites to "defend the idea of 'blue-eyed soul,' " I would like to point out that the "funky Memphis rhythm section" that became the vehicle which made it possible for Aretha to dp her thing is composed of all white musicians...
...stated that "she leans her head back, forehead gleaming with perspiration." Aretha does not perspire, she sweats. Sweat has soul. Perspire is a word invented by blue-veined little ladies who spoke of limbs instead of arms and legs, boy cows instead of bulls...
...regard to your Soul listing in the story on Aretha Franklin [June...
Nobody has more vividly evoked the kind of supercharged evangelist-gospel atmosphere of Aretha Franklin's childhood than Black Novelist James Baldwin (a onetime Harlem storefront preacher). In his 1963 book, The Fire Next Time, he wrote...